Friday on CNN’s “Newsroom,” Rice University history professor Douglas Brinkley said President Donald Trump’s first year had an “asterisk” next to it.
Brinkley said, “It’s an asterisk president — nobody really believed he is president. That’s because of the FBI, the Justice Department constantly investigating him. You’re waiting any day for a shoe to drop.”
Brinkley continued, “Where he really, I think, did well in his first year is border security. I think the idea that most Americans want a tougher border with Mexico, not the wall, but the idea of more apprehensions. I think in foreign affairs the tough stance with Iran, perhaps the American embassy in Jerusalem, you know, making that bold move might play out well in history, ISIS in Syria and Iraq and one surgical strike in Syria, the chemical plant was flawless. It was a pinpoint precision mission, and it worked.”
He added, “Number one for me that history’s going to look terribly on the in the first year of Trump is racism — the bigotry of Charlottesville. The bigotry of comments he made about Haiti and Africa, El Salvador. This whole game of the national anthem and how he tried to orchestrate and inflame the country. Very low marks on race relations for this president.”
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